A method employed by companies and governments to raise cash. It involves the sale of an asset (for example a building, a factory, or a public services company) to an investor for cash, combined with a long term lease contract that generates monthly or annual payments to that investor. This method generates short term cash, but creates additional liabilities in the future, which typically are not accounted for.

Securitized Debt

A pool of financial assets (typically debt) that gets packaged into securities that can be sold to investors. Mostly, those securities earn interest and repay the principal amount at the end of a defined term.

Share

In economic terms this describes an equity stake in a company. A shareholder owns a fraction of that company. In other context it often describes a part of an entire group of things.